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Fight for Home paperback
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Publication date: August 13, 2013
CONTACT: Carrie Majer
Senior Publicist
(212) 419-5361
carrie.majer@bloomsbury.com
AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACK
THE FIGHT FOR HOME
HOW (PARTS OF) NEW ORLEANS CAME BACK
DANIEL WOLFF
“Wolff covers the facts, the politics, the need-to-know information and context of the catastrophe…But this book's essential charm -- and there's plenty of it -- lies in the voices, the strong characters that Wolff translates incandescently onto the page.” —New Orleans Times-Picayune
“[A] moving narrative…achingly poignant. Wolff provides a powerful message about human will.”
—Chicago Tribune
"THE FIGHT FOR HOME tenaciously and colorfully, like the survivors themselves, exposes the initial
trauma and despair, and the subsequent anger, frustration, joy and exaltation of their plight. This is a historic document.” —Christian Science Monitor
“In THE FIGHT FOR HOME, writer/filmmaker Daniel Wolff sets aside national politics and Red Team/Blue Team narratives. Instead he focuses on a handful of New Orleans–area residents and outside volunteers, using their stories to tell the saga of rebuilding the city one house, block, and neighborhood at a time. The result is one of the finest histories of Hurricane Katrina to date, and one of only a few to relegate state and national politics to their appropriate role on the sidelines.” —Reason Magazine
After the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans became ground zero for the reinvention of the American city, with urban planners, movie stars, anarchists, and politicians all advancing their competing visions of recovery. In this wash of reform, residents and volunteers from across the country struggled to build the foundations for a new New Orleans.
For over five years, author Daniel Wolff has documented an amazing cross-section of the city in upheaval: a born-again preacher with a ministry of ex-addicts; a former Black Panther organizing for a new cause; a single mother, “broke as a joke” in a FEMA trailer. Told mostly through their eyes, THE FIGHT FOR HOME: How (Parts of) New Orleans Came Back (Bloomsbury / pub: August 13, 2013 / $18 paperback / 344 pages) chronicles their battle to survive not just the floods, but the corruption that continues and the base-level emergency of poverty and neglect. >From ruin to limbo to triumphant return, Wolff offers an intimate look at the lives of everyday American heroes. As they play out against the ruined local landscape and an emerging national recession, The Fight for Home becomes a story of resilience and hope.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Daniel Wolff is the author of How Lincoln Learned to Read, a Chicago Tribune Editor’s Choice pick; 4th of July, Asbury Park, a New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice pick; You Send Me: The Life and Times of Sam Cooke, a national bestseller; and two volumes of poetry, among other books. His writing has appeared in publications ranging from Vogue to Wooden Boat to Education Weekly. He is the co-producer, with Jonathan Demme, of several documentary film projects on New Orleans.
THE FIGHT FOR HOME: How (Parts Of) New Orleans Came Back
Daniel Wolff
Bloomsbury
ISBN: 9781608197514
Pub date: August 13, 2013
$18 paperback
344 pagesThe Fight for Home: How (Parts of) New Orleans Came BackDaniel Wolff
Publication date: August 13, 2013
CONTACT: Carrie Majer
Senior Publicist
(212) 419-5361
carrie.majer@bloomsbury.com
AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACK
THE FIGHT FOR HOME
HOW (PARTS OF) NEW ORLEANS CAME BACK
DANIEL WOLFF
“Wolff covers the facts, the politics, the need-to-know information and context of the catastrophe…But this book's essential charm -- and there's plenty of it -- lies in the voices, the strong characters that Wolff translates incandescently onto the page.” —New Orleans Times-Picayune
“[A] moving narrative…achingly poignant. Wolff provides a powerful message about human will.”
—Chicago Tribune
"THE FIGHT FOR HOME tenaciously and colorfully, like the survivors themselves, exposes the initial
trauma and despair, and the subsequent anger, frustration, joy and exaltation of their plight. This is a historic document.” —Christian Science Monitor
“In THE FIGHT FOR HOME, writer/filmmaker Daniel Wolff sets aside national politics and Red Team/Blue Team narratives. Instead he focuses on a handful of New Orleans–area residents and outside volunteers, using their stories to tell the saga of rebuilding the city one house, block, and neighborhood at a time. The result is one of the finest histories of Hurricane Katrina to date, and one of only a few to relegate state and national politics to their appropriate role on the sidelines.” —Reason Magazine
After the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans became ground zero for the reinvention of the American city, with urban planners, movie stars, anarchists, and politicians all advancing their competing visions of recovery. In this wash of reform, residents and volunteers from across the country struggled to build the foundations for a new New Orleans.
For over five years, author Daniel Wolff has documented an amazing cross-section of the city in upheaval: a born-again preacher with a ministry of ex-addicts; a former Black Panther organizing for a new cause; a single mother, “broke as a joke” in a FEMA trailer. Told mostly through their eyes, THE FIGHT FOR HOME: How (Parts of) New Orleans Came Back (Bloomsbury / pub: August 13, 2013 / $18 paperback / 344 pages) chronicles their battle to survive not just the floods, but the corruption that continues and the base-level emergency of poverty and neglect. >From ruin to limbo to triumphant return, Wolff offers an intimate look at the lives of everyday American heroes. As they play out against the ruined local landscape and an emerging national recession, The Fight for Home becomes a story of resilience and hope.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Daniel Wolff is the author of How Lincoln Learned to Read, a Chicago Tribune Editor’s Choice pick; 4th of July, Asbury Park, a New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice pick; You Send Me: The Life and Times of Sam Cooke, a national bestseller; and two volumes of poetry, among other books. His writing has appeared in publications ranging from Vogue to Wooden Boat to Education Weekly. He is the co-producer, with Jonathan Demme, of several documentary film projects on New Orleans.
THE FIGHT FOR HOME: How (Parts Of) New Orleans Came Back
Daniel Wolff
Bloomsbury
ISBN: 9781608197514
Pub date: August 13, 2013
$18 paperback
344 pagesThe Fight for Home: How (Parts of) New Orleans Came BackDaniel Wolff
